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What role do cultural values play in human relations?
How do cultural misconceptions impact human thought and behavior?
Why is it important to study cultures from the past?
Enduring Understandings:
Cultural identity is determined and influenced by many factors.
Cultural values and beliefs affect relations among individuals, groups, institutions, and political states.
Cultural misconceptions can breed intolerance and cause conflict.
Our past affects our present and our future.
Literature Study: Rabbit Proof Fence (Film as text) House on Mango Street
Studies of culture are essential to foster global respect and empathy, and to develop understanding of different perceptions and customs. Students will engage in an analysis of Rabbit Proof Fence as an introduction to the impact of contact on indigenous civilizations. Through the movie they will investigate the themes of family, personal identity, cultural identity and displacement as well as the structural elements of film. The themes of the film will provide students with a basis from which to compare and contrast the effects of major colonizing movements across time. The unit will also focus on the role of governments and of the United Nations in relation to the rights of indigenous peoples. As a means to create further context for understanding, students will continue their exploration of culture through the text House on Mango Street. Through Esperanza’s eyes, they will experience the reality of the ‘melting pot’ and investigate the meaning of E Pluribus Unum (Out of the Many, One). The text’s use of poetry will provide a basis for students to further their studies of this medium of expression.
Teacher notes
Unit Outline
currently being edited
Unit materials
Each teacher has developed their own wikispace, but as you will see, the basic framework of enduring understandings, text studies and the historical context remain the same. There is also a strong core of common assessments.
Each teacher has constructed additional supplementary materials, such as formative and summative assessments, with accompanying rubrics. These are added below.
Susannah
Fay
In-class essay for House on Mango Street
Explain how one aspect of the human condition is portrayed through House on Mango Street Preparation
Teacher notes
Collecting evidence
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Table of Contents
Overview
Quarter 2 and 3Essential Questions:
Enduring Understandings:
Literature Study:
Rabbit Proof Fence (Film as text)
House on Mango Street
Studies of culture are essential to foster global respect and empathy, and to develop understanding of different perceptions and customs. Students will engage in an analysis of Rabbit Proof Fence as an introduction to the impact of contact on indigenous civilizations. Through the movie they will investigate the themes of family, personal identity, cultural identity and displacement as well as the structural elements of film. The themes of the film will provide students with a basis from which to compare and contrast the effects of major colonizing movements across time. The unit will also focus on the role of governments and of the United Nations in relation to the rights of indigenous peoples. As a means to create further context for understanding, students will continue their exploration of culture through the text House on Mango Street. Through Esperanza’s eyes, they will experience the reality of the ‘melting pot’ and investigate the meaning of E Pluribus Unum (Out of the Many, One). The text’s use of poetry will provide a basis for students to further their studies of this medium of expression.
Teacher notes
Unit Outline
currently being edited
Unit materials
Each teacher has developed their own wikispace, but as you will see, the basic framework of enduring understandings, text studies and the historical context remain the same. There is also a strong core of common assessments.
Fay Leong's wikispace
http://global-citizen.wikispaces.com
Susannah Muench's wikispace
http://citizen-global.wikispaces.com
Individual Teacher Materials
Each teacher has constructed additional supplementary materials, such as formative and summative assessments, with accompanying rubrics. These are added below.Susannah
Fay
In-class essay for House on Mango StreetExplain how one aspect of the human condition is portrayed through House on Mango Street
Preparation
Teacher notes
Collecting evidence
In-class essay rubric